Enough, if not too much, has been said about this business of Japa. ‘Don’t japa,’ ‘Japa with sense, those who have Japa-ed are suffering but pretending to be enjoying…’ It’s the “suffering” part that gets me. I can almost imagine…
Tiamiyu and his savage view of fellow Nigerians on BBC
I watched a snippet of the video that has been circulating all over social media. The video is about an interview with newly emigrated, self-acclaimed YouTube immigration influencer named Emdee Tiamiyu had with the BBC. In that interview, Tiamiyu practically…
He told me he hated sex, yet he fathered children outside
What man tells his wife he doesn’t like sex? Let me tell you how I got here. I got married late… All my sisters, even my younger cousins had all gotten married long before I finally did. In fact, at…
I told her not to marry my useless brother; guess what she said?
My brother is a thief. No, let me put it more appropriately, he is a con! He is a spoilt brat and a mummy’s boy who never grew up to take any form of responsibility and now at almost 40…
Our children, the monsters!
Some of our children can seem like monsters at times. I got a call from an old acquaintance who had seen something I wrote a while back. It was a piece about how some of our children can be deceptive.…
Long live the King!
A friend said the only thing the British have is the monarchy. True, which is why, love it or hate it, it is an institution they will not trifle with. This is why the British and indeed, the Royalists, as…
“Scammers are using my name to scam people” – Onyeka Nwelue
Scam alert Onyeka Nwelue, writer, filmmaker, teacher, and literary tastemaker has alerted the public to the activities of scammer(s) who are impersonating him on social media to hoodwink gullible Nigerians wishing to travel abroad. In a series of social media…
Ok, I snatched him, what will you do about it?
I have been called all kinds of names. “Husband snatcher,” “Ashawo,” “home breaker”…name it and by fellow women. Much as it hurt at the beginning, I am now the one gloating at all the name-callers, “Eat your hearts out, bitches!”…
The video that got the police working
It began with a seemingly innocent video of an aggrieved woman. Omolara James a nursing mother had felt cheated, belittled, even traumatised by someone she had no business with. So she got home and, did a video, appealing to help…
How USSD and mobile money transactions are deepening Nigeria’s financial system – Toni Kan
Ask the average Nigerian how often he makes Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions and he or she will mostly likely tell you that they don’t. But mention USSD transactions and their faces will light up with recognition. USSD is shorthand…